About me

User Experience Designer / Information Architect

User experience professional with over 10 years experience of
user-centred design, development and implementation, working on small
to large scale appliation and web-based deployments for corporate and
small business clients. Specialised in designing and building
interaction specifications and design experiences, developing
information architectures, managing brand consistency, and driving
collaboration with functional teams and stakeholders across the
production life cycle.

Key Skills

Interaction Design -

Excellent presentation skills with long experience in presenting
user experience design proposals to functional teams and executive
stakeholders.

Identification of target users and domains, construction of
personas and user stories and evaluation of user activities and
behaviours.

Design and development of information architectures and
taxonomies that drive consistent and meaningful user
experiences.

Development of interaction models and end-to-end workflows to
support production of design specifications, using storyboards,
sketching, and collaborative design sessions.

Creation of detailed, production-ready design specifications,
defining critical user interactions and web interface
requirements.

User Interface Development -

Extensive experience with building rapid and production-ready
prototypes for use in usability evaluations and design
iterations.

Developing usability testing scenarios and conducting test
reviews and analysis.

Liaison with development teams on implementation and deployment
of interfaces across multiple platforms and technologies.

Design and build of complex web user interfaces from detailed
design specifications.

High specification graphic design and development.

Production Management -

Management of global deployment of corporate brand across web
venues in multiple countries and languages.

Development of modular component libraries to support consistent
deployment of brand across multiple platforms and publishing
systems.

Liaison with corporate brand and marketing teams on extension of
brand into web and web 2.0 architectures.

Experienced client and vendor relationship manager, working with
producers, design and deployment consultants and agencies.

Experience

10 years graphic design including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
Illustrator.

10 years interaction design including Microsoft Visio, Adobe
InDesign, Fireworks, Axure, multiple mapping, workflow and
collaboration tools.

10 years web development including HTML, CSS, XML, Java, Perl,
multiple IDEs and publishing systems.

Knowledge of RIA/Web 2.0 technologies including Silverlight,
JavaFX, Adobe Flex.

Experienced as manager and individual contributor, in
office-based, remote working and home working collaborative
teams.